Dvd Will Play On Pc But Not On Dvd Player

[ginvodka]

Hi all,
My husband has painstakingly gone through our home movies, to put together a compilation for our sons upcoming 21st.(We would like it to be playing on the TV at the venue) The DVD will play on our home PC but not on our DVD Player. Has anyone any suggestions? Would hate to see all his hard work gone to waste.

[DJHawkes]

did you buy the right type of disc?

[ginvodka]

Using Maxell DVD-RW (He had already made one compilation that played fine on dvd player...but it needed fine tuning...so he went through it all again....Hope it's not a dud disc :(

[society]

This happens to me when I copy CDs. They play on the computer but not on the CD player.

[Sharingan]

What format is he saving the files in and what programme is he using to do this please?

[Tuvok]

Could be a few reasons.

Has he just put the files on the disk?

If so what format are the files - avi, mpg, qt ?

Has he finalised the disk?

If you can post here what he has don, it will help.

[VHG]

Why use a DVD RW disk?

Why not use a DVD-R or DVD+R

[ChuckFickens]

DVD means two things in this instance...

DVD... the type of disk a computer can read.. this can hold any sort of data file that a computer can read.

DVD... A standard for a video disc that has to be exactly adhered to for a "DVD player" to be able to play them.

I suspect you've made a DVD disc of the first type which "normal" DVD players will not play.

[Tuvok]

DVD players are not all the same. Some can play movie files, show photos etc. Some need the photos at the top of the disk, others need them in folders.

DVD disks come in 6 formats: +R, +RW, -R, -RW, DVD-Ram and dual-layer. Not all players can play all formats.

[ginvodka]

Ok from what I can gather. He formatted the disc to begin with...each clip he recorded is there under "titles". When he had all he wanted on the DVD he finalised it. As I say, it plays on the pc but not the dvd. I tried making a copy of it on the PC but was getting a reading error, but as I say it is playing them perfectly from start to finish???

[Zeuhl]

Try putting them onto a bog standard DVD-R

Some players can't cope with DVD RW

[Sharingan]

On the computer right click on pone of the files and you will see something like davidsbirthday.mov or davidsbirthday.avi. It's the thing after the . that we need to know- called the file extension. Can you let us know what that is please?

[Tuvok]

Sounds like he has just put the movies on the disk.

Have you another dvd player to try it on?

Have you got Nero? If so, it has the capability to make proper dvds. You drop your movie files into it, the let it create a dvd from them which should then play on the dvd player.

Another programe to try is TMpegEnc. For some reason I don't get sound when editing with ti, but the sound is there when it creates the dvd.

[Tuvok]

take a look here, there may be a program to suit.

http://terms.giveawayoftheday.com/dvd/


The site gives away a different program each day.

[Tuvok]

Try this one

http://lib.giveawayoftheday.com/Free_Video_To_DVD_Converter_374377/

[sara3]

if you have a laptop, can you take that to the venue and link it to the tv screen?

[ginvodka]

Many thanks for all your help. Zeuhl, There is no way he can trawl through all the home dvds again to take out the snippets he wants and put on bog standard DVD R. Think at this stage will have to go with Sara3 's suggestion of bringing a laptop to the venue.
Thanks for all other suggestions but we are just not "techy" enough to take them on.
Sharingan, I am not ignoring your questions, but because the clips are recorded(not burned) on to a DVD, I have no avi etc etc.

Thanks to you all. Fingers crossed that all goes well for his 21st

[Zeuhl]

But surely he didn't put the snippets directly onto a disk one at a time

He must have the edited compilation saved on the computer ready to view there, or copy onto more disks or a stick?

[Sharingan]

Whatever it is has to have a file extension otherwise it won't play on anything, in fact it won't exist at all on the disc :)
Hope the party goes well, and it seems a sensible suggestion if it works on your laptop to do as Sara suggests:)

[ginvodka]

Many thanks for that alpha. We have the problem sorted...turned out that there was some corrupt files on the disc.....thanks again. Will look up that site for future reference.